Loving a Character, but Hating how They Can be Written at Times. A Starfire Reflection.

Greetings DCEA :wave: 🏻 I thought I would take a moment to step away from the dudes of DC I love and discuss a femme fatale I’ve got a soft spot for. Starfire/Koriand’r/Kori Anders. I know this is a character who may have mixed feelings towards from fans. Some love her. Some hate her. Others are somewhere in the middle.

Me, I’ve always enjoyed Starfire in most iterations. Teen Titans’ was what I grew up with. I loved her design in New Teen Titans and I enjoyed her Red Hood and the Outlaws iteration (one that would be considered controversial for a time). Her backstory is interesting, her powers fitting, and her Tameranean roots a curious one. She’s a character who is open about her emotions and love, but also is a capable fighter.

However, while I do enjoy Starfire, I can it that she has flaws.

Too Cluelessness/Naïvety at Times

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While I wouldn’t say she’s a complete airhead, Starfire does have moments where she appears naïve. While some of it is reasonable (after all, her culture and Earth’s are different), there are times where it can be annoying.

Some could point at her solo series as an example. Or maybe her Teen Titans Go appearance (which I have a love hate relationship with myself). However, I feel like an instance in New Teen Titans do it for me.

That being her not understanding why Dick doesn’t want to be a “side piece” to her when she was getting married on Tameran. While Dick himself could, arguably, be in a similarly bothersome situation, the fact that Starfire didn’t seem to understand why kind of bothered me. Again, I can understand that there’s a culture difference where Tameraneans are more lax about having multiple partners, I could understand why Dock didn’t want to to be in that kind of situation. Starfire in this situation didn’t seem to take note of where he was coming from (that said Dick was kind of being his namesake with how he approached it).

Her Response to the Mirage Incident

While there was a lot wrong with the approach here, her response didn’t help. Granted her response wasn’t the worst, but the fact that she had issue with it and Dick not knowing it wasn’t her wasn’t great. Dick apologized (take that as you will), but this whole incident could have been approached differently.

Too Much Romance

While Starfire is known for being loving and love being a big emotion on Tameran, I sometimes feel like ahe’s a little too romantic at times. She has great action scenes and a lot of potential as a fighter, which I feel could be more of a focus (and could be). I’m fine with her romances with Dick and Roy, but there were just times where I felt like romance/love shouldn’t be Starfire’s only thing. This us a lesser grievance, as I could be missing something, but one I thought was worth mentioning.

Conclusion